Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

"Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question."

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.